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Debra Rienstra

Austerity Measures

At my house this Advent, we have become unintentional liturgical season purists. Two days before Christmas, and still not one Christmas box hauled up from

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In It for the Long Haul

By Debra Rienstra Reformed people are in it for the long haul. That’s one of the things I’ve admired about the Reformed people and communities

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Zechariah’s Dream

At first it was awful, the silence. I was angry, of course. I fumed around the house, slammed doors, felt sorry for myself. After a

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Inappropriate Halloween Costumes

No, I’m not going to decry oversexualized harem girl outfits for seven-year-olds or ax-in-the-head gross-out costumes for grownups. Nor am I going to indulge in

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Ecumenism, Art, and Hope

“Beauty—from that which we see in nature to that which is expressed in words of art—, precisely because it broadens the horizon of human consciousness,

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A World Still Stirred

October 31 approaches, the official five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. No doubt Halloween will prove interesting this year, as surely we must all

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Any Tenderness?

As a professor of British literature, I consider it my duty to stay up to date on UK television, at least anything involving horses and

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